California · Nonprofit
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont McKenna College (California) receives grants from 220 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,173,773 to it, the largest being The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation ($37,000,000). 144 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $276M
- Funders on record
- 220
- Grants received
- $204M
- Net assets
- $2.1B
What Claremont McKenna College does
Mission
Claremont McKenna College's mission is to prepare students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership in business, government, and the professions. The College pursues this mission by providing a liberal arts education that emphasizes economics and political science; promotes faculty and student scholarship that contributes to intellectual vitality and an understanding of public policy issues; supports a professoriate that is dedicated to effective undergraduate teaching; reinforces a close student-teacher relationship that fosters critical inquiry; sustains an active residential and intellectual environment; sponsors scholarly support for a faculty of teacher-scholars; and champions freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity, and constructive dialogue, as well as institutional neutrality, through The Open Academy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See Schedule OClaremont McKenna College, one of the nation's top liberal arts colleges, prepares students to make a difference. Since 1946, Claremont McKenna College's mission has been to prepare students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership in business, government, and the professions. The College attracts a student bodythat is broadly diverse and accomplished beyond the classroom.Claremont McKenna is a member of The Claremont Colleges, a seven-college consortium modeled after Oxford University. Students have the best of both worlds: the intimacy of a small residential college with small classes and a student-faculty ratio of eight to one, and the shared resources of a larger research university.Renowned for expertise in economics, government, humanities, and the sciences, Claremont McKenna has been a leader in freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity, and constructive dialogue, as well as institutional neutrality through The Open Academy. The College emphasizes the integration of leadership and innovation experience within eleven world-class research institutes, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, and sponsored off-campus internships. More than 90% of…
$176,448,646 spentof which $35,133,560 as grants$131,026,746 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $176,448,646.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.8B to $2.2B (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kenneth J Valach
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 101 funders, grant income rose $13M → $39M.
45 of 220 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $152k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Simons Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Claremont McKenna College raised.
From the IRS filings of Claremont McKenna College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 220 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Claremont McKenna College has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 68% · 2019 26% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of Claremont McKenna College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of Claremont McKenna College's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding Claremont McKenna College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.8M on record.
- National Science Foundation$8.4M
- Department of Education$6.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Department of Defense$584k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Claremont McKenna College
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Claremont McKenna College Holdings LLC · disregarded
- The Claremont Colleges Inc · exempt
- Claremont McKenna College Foundation · exempt
- Children's Education Center of Claremont · exempt
- Claremont Investment Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Claremont McKenna College: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College?
- Claremont McKenna College (California) receives grants from 220 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,173,773 to it, the largest being The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation ($37,000,000). 144 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Claremont McKenna College have?
- IRS filings report 220 organizations giving $204,173,773 in grants to Claremont McKenna College, 144 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Claremont McKenna College?
- The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $37,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Claremont McKenna College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 220 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing